Our new addition!

Meet the new Fred. He is white and red. Ethan picked out a new beta today. And decided to name him nothing other then Fred. Not Fred 2 or Fred Jr., just Fred. So, that makes it a little easier to remember. LOL. Wish us luck. We had the original Fred for 6-7 months. Not sure of his history before. Ethan's KK brought it to him from someone that no longer wanted him. So, hoping this Fred has a long life.

Enough about the fish, right?! This weekend we have just been lazy. We took Odie for a walk this evening. He did good to begin with, but then got really tired. Poor boy. He took awhile to get relaxed when we got him. He was exhausted! Don't think we will walk him everyday. Maybe a few times a week. Ethan loved walking him. He would run ahead of Odie and wait for him to catch up. I was hoping for a nice rainey weekend. But that didn't happen. I guess i was looking for that excuse to lay around and be lazy. Luckily tomorrow is lazy sunday. Movies all day, PJ's all day, and no house work. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

All Pets, beware of us!

We are not having good luck at all. When we got home tuesday from New York our water was cloudy and it sizzled. We figured it was b/c the water had been sitting in the pipes. It is now thursday night and it has not cleared up. Not thinking today, i cleaned the beta fish, Fred's, bowl. Within a few hours he was dead!!!! Poor Fred :( So, we started to freak out b/c we have had coffee with it, bathing in it, and the cats and dog have been drinking it. I just ran to dollar genreal and got drinking water. Will have to call the water department tomorrow. Someone might need to call pet defacs on us. LOL. We lost a kitty and now the fish. All pets, beware!!!

We're Home! *edit*

For those who might have missed my blogs, we are home! We had a wonderful visit to New York to visit family and Pennsylvania. Alex's grandfather passed away last monday (8/25) so we headed north. We are all deeply sadened by the loss. It has been a tough summer for our family with several loses to the families. We were defiently blessed to have these people in our life. Each was very special.

We have a TON of picture to post. I am going to try to figure out the picassa web album and just upload them all there. There were too many to just choose a few. However, there are several special ones that will make it here to the blog in the next few days.

We are very ready to put our feet up and relax.

Pics are at: http://picasaweb.google.com/Beckaboo3283/TripNorth2008#

And for a few that need to be shared :)

Little Miss Carly Tousley showing her booty to the camera! She is a cutie!





Never fall asleep with family around! Especially when there has been drinking! I love you guys :)








Carly (17 months), Brooklynn (20 months), and Lily (18 months). They all just loved playing!





Carly or Brooke???






We all love Grandma!

R.I.P Tigger

After much searching, we have unfourtablty concluded that Tigger has passed away. Alex got her when she was 6 months old from a local humane society. He had her and Gizmo for several years. When we began dating in 2001 I was immediatly rushed down to Augusta for not his families approval, but Tigger and Gizmos. The one thing that bonded Alex and I from the beginning was out love for cats. I had Lacey and he had his 2. Of coarse Tigger and Gizmo instantly loved me :) Once Alex got settled he brought them home to his apartments. At one point i moved Lacey in. Tigger always hated Lacey. Hoping they made amenze before she left.

Tigger was a wonderful cat. As much as she was not fond of the kids, she never scratched. She would just kindly walk away. She was very excepting of all the other cats that moved in. She had such a unique personality. Our home will not be the same without her. Nor do we expect it to. There is still some hope she may turn up. Unfourtantly though, this time it seems like her allerigies to fleas got the best of her.

A little Friday update

Ethan had a better week. He has actually had a great week. So, that is great. I have not been walking him in. He absolutly is LOVING walking himself in. It is so cute. And he was so excited to bring his own lunch thursday. I may have to look at sending it is more often. I did volunteer in his class wednesday. He seems fine and is adjusting well. I really like his main teacher who is his "nice" teacher. Mainly i think the "mean" teacher just has not bonded with him. But it is her loss, not Ethan's.

Brooklynn has been sick all week! She was sick the first part of last week. And she has been sick since Monday i think. today is the first day she is starting to feel better even though she was up all night coughing. I put her down for an early nap. We had a busy morning of grocery shopping.

One of our kitties Tigger is missing. She is going to be 9 in October. Alex has had her since before we got together. She has always been in indoor kitty. Rarely went outside. She is allerigic to fleas. We were not able to get her midicine right now. We got some temporary relief stuff for her. But, i guess it was not working. She was ripping all her hair out. We are afraid she caused an infection and has gone off somewhere and passed away. We just keep hoping we will find her hiding place. However, at this time she has not eaten in 4-5 days. So, that does not look good. We hope though that she is ok and she turns up.

I am off to do some more cleaning before I have to go pick up Ethan. He is so excited his Aunt KK is coming tomorrow. Hoping it goes ok. She is brining Aaron with her. But for some reason Ethan will not expcept that she is no longer with her ex Randy. Last time he sat there and called Aaron Randy the whole time. I have been working on it all weekend. Right now he says that Randy always went to Grammys when he was there but Aaron doesn't. Aaron is in the Navy with his Aunt KK i have tried to explain so he can't go to grammys. Oh well, my thoughts are with Aaron being able to make it through the Ethan torture. Whatever Randy did, he somehow made an impression on Ethan. Hopefully somehow we can get Ethan to forget it for Aarons sake.

Have a great weekend!

Lots of Pictures!

i love painting with water on the aqua doodle! Oh and watching Blue's Clues!











He said, mommy did you get my picture going WHOA! Goofy boy









Odie and Lacey....caught red handed hanging out!
















She might be sick, but she is happy :)











this one defiently screams out Alex Jr!

This week

This week has been a crazy week and i am so glad today is saturday and tomorrow starts a new week. I am exhausted. (random pics going to be placed throughout the entry for your enjoyment) I met with Ethan's principal on Friday to try and get things figured out. Ethan is just so unhappy at this school. I am going to start volunteering one day a week there. They want me to not walk him in and do car drop off to see if that will make a differance. Maybe he is pitching a fit b/c i am walking him in. I tried explaining that his fits are not just crying. They are full blown out tears and yelling "Mommy don't leave me here!" So we will see. If this does not help then the next step will have his class changed. Which they did not even give me as an option friday. I am trying to speak positivly about the school to him and about his teachers. Right now the only thing i can gather is that the "mean" teacher is not bonding with him maybe and she is just telling him what he needs to do. So we will see. Hoping that we are able to get to the bottom of this soon. Brooklynn is still potty training as you can see in the pic. She loves it! She always wants to wear her panties. I don't think she has yet to pee in the potty. It is still on herself but she knows that she does not like the feeling. She has atleast mastered the skill of putting on her panties and then taking them off. YAY! That is one of the first accomplishemnts!

I went to a friends babyshower today. i have not seen her since sophomore year when we moved from Athens. It was great to see her. She was one of my "BFFs". We used to cause some trouble. LOL! She lived close to me. She is having her first baby. A baby girl. And it was so nice to get to see her. She is currently living in Savannah but will be moving back to Athens in December. I can't wait. As long as we are living here i will get to see her more. Then the trouble can start again. Ha ha! That is one thing i have loved about living here in Homer. I am so close to the people i knew for 16 years. We moved to Buford when i was 16 and i never got along too well with many of the gwinnett folks! Completly different then my folks from Athens. That is Brooke playing with another friend i see a lot from Athens. that is baby Zoe. Brooke LOVES babys. I left Ethan with my friend Alicia's husband so he could watch Transformers with Zoe's big brother Dominic. Ethan of coarse had a blast! He said on the way there "I am staying with the boys mommy while you go with the girls to shower the little baby." Ha ha! He is so funny! I am lucky to have 2 great kids!